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January 1
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Does Aromanian possess grammatic cases?
What is the word for a baby unicorn?
Determination on reliability of Portuguese source needed
January 2
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Is the grammar understandable?
Wow
January 3
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Apostrophe & Pronunciation
Pronunciation of "slew"
"more slender" or "slenderer"?
Number governed by "each"
Bar at the top of the letter J
Japanese question
January 4
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Icelandic Names and Naming Conventions
January 5
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Is endos a Japanese or English word and what does it mean?
A man is knighted and a woman is...?
Lay and laid
Getting the shaft
A rat by any other name...
Cambodian/Khmer help
Is there a database of lyrics with faulty language?
January 6
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Difference between for example and for instance ?
January 7
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Eragrostis = lovegrass : why that name ?
Why does "unsafest" sound wrong?
Subject, class, course ?
Spanish
January 8
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Is "renowned" derived from a verb?
Request for translation of Latin epitaph
Pronunciation of "Lefebvre"
January 9
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Przy Pikrynie i Trotylu
Difference between "Play" and "Drama"!
Falling in Love Again - translation problem
January 10
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1647 French birth record
January 11
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Spanish/Galician help
Website for obscure words
History of Belgium
Bill
Voiceless dental affricate
Mid 19th century (or earlier) dialect question..
Help Identifying a Short Story - Kipling I think
Board room
January 12
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French translation of tablet
Michigan
"-ise" or "-ize"?
January 13
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Name of a Korean cooking device
January 14
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Need help with what this statement means?
Term used to describe a technique
Awkward phrasing: double negative sentence, what is the meaning?
How to pronounce Leonowens
Nursing in the UK
January 15
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"His face was drawn but the curtains were real"
Appropriate word
Collective nouns
Wikivoyage related
January 16
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"Taped" = "pre-recorded", no matter what medium is really used?
Bengali name for "Peel District School Board"
Tuu tii tu tööti tuu
The Ballad of Bill Hubbard
Hindi and Punjabi names for New York City Department of Education
Hebrew name for New York City Department of Education
January 17
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Spell Chekcer software
Polish - Home
January 18
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Has the NYC-area phrase "to stand on line" replaced the phrase "to stand in line" in any other dialects?
"A shot at the title"
Of Mice and Men
Chinese Syllabary?
How to apologize in French
Languages without distinct plurals ?
January 19
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Pika = Pikachu ?
Pronunciation of Fouvry
January 20
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Half a dozen
January 21
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Choose Your Own Adventure Book Cover Fonts
aqua
Is this a sentence?
From Cinema to English Vocabulary
Any definition difference between lights and colors
What the Bible's book are most translated?
January 22
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Typos in Chinese and Japanese
Proposing an ambiguous spelling
Weird adage
Letters as designations?
What can you say about the readability of the short paragraph?
January 23
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Ramaré
Trnaslation to French
Pronunciation of French names
January 24
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Identify three (Japanese?) characters in Brian Austin Green tattoo?
January 25
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Türkmenbaşy
Use of "then".
Is there an English equivalent to the Chinese proverb 好汉不吃眼前亏?
Dependent and independent clauses
January 26
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tak
Passive voice
Please do better than Google Translate
Overuse of the progressive
January 27
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Language evolution after disaster
Pronunciation of "online": a or an before "online"?
What is this accent?
January 28
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"Women writers"
Equivalence for spiel?
Maker subculture
Druggist, apothecary, pharmacist
January 29
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Between / among
Requesting translation from Italian to English
Rechtsfähigkeit/権利能力
interbreeding vs. outbreeding
Is contemporary then, now or either?
Words with supposed antonyms but are actually synonyms?
Stage Language
Register and French/Germanic word origins
January 30
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Aboriginal swearing - Translation from Latin
Is it possible to reconstruct a currently spoken language (grammar, vocabulary, phonology) given it's parent language and sister languages?
Short translation into Polish
Is this really a rule in English?
January 31
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What is it Westergren?
(Non-)Mutual intelligibility of Russian and Serbo-Croatian
Vietnamese help
Mustafa Farrah